I was open about my shortcomings, real with my Toronto Maple Leafs the good the bad and the ugly shirt. Something I wasn’t expecting happened as a result. My humanness allowed my children to be human. My courage to show up gave my kids the courage to show up. Loving myself despite my failures, flaws, and imperfections gave my children permission to love themselves as is. Each time I pulled myself back up from a fall, my soul shined boldly and bravely. And my loved ones breathed a sigh of relief knowing mistakes were not the end of the world not the end of the world at all.

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They were a beginning, Toronto Maple Leafs the good the bad and the ugly shirt of imperfection and grace. Forty-two years was not too late to be kind to me. And it wasn’t too soon for the ones I loved most. I’m thankful for beautiful friends like Ashley who remind me on days I forget. I’m so stealing that wording you need to shut your bully up. For myself. And for a few people close to me who put themselves down when they are beautiful just as they are! I just happened to be wearing my “Come as you are” bracelet that day so I took it off and put it on her wrist and told her “you are enough. It was like giving her a knighthood the way she sat a little taller, held her head a little higher, and let her dreams soar a little further.